Alyssa Vang, a senior at Burnsville High School, was the state’s winner for the “H20 for Life” poster design competition, which asked students to create an educational poster related to the issues of water supply or clean water.

Her poster encourages students to use tap water instead of bottled water. As a prize, Vang received $50 and a water-bottle filling station for the high school. Vang is a member of the high school’s new Green Team, which aims to reduce bottled water use and cut the school’s daily waste by 50 percent.

Lakeville

District students do well at national speech tournament

The Lakeville district had a strong showing at the 2013 National Catholic Forensic League tournament in Philadelphia on May 25 and 26.

Six high school students from the district attended the competition, along with 3,000 other competitors from 500 other schools.

Will Preachuk made it to the top 48 in the dramatic performance category, Sean Mullin advanced to the top 24 in declamation and Katie Makowski placed fourth in the final round, also in dramatic performance.